Rewarding leadership strengths without making provision for the development of new skills can be bad for business, says Jill Flint-Taylor.

The middle ranks of the police are finding themselves under pressure from all sides, says Gordon Tinline.

Staff retention is becoming an increasingly difficult trick to pull off, says Ivan Robertson.

Control, autonomy, the freedom to do your job as you think it should be done - whatever you call it, most of us want it to be part of our working lives, says Cary Cooper.

The relationship between the NHS and its staff is at a crossroads, says Ben Moss.

In the US they say that business people don't really feel they have experience until they have at least one big failure behind them. Ivan Robertson considers the importance of experiencing failure and coping with adversity.